Campbell sets step 1 and 2 filter for MD student.

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This thread is blown out of proportion. This is a clear signal to IMG’s/FMG’s to not apply here. Some IMG IM programs do the same thing (ex. Easton Hospital says 235+ step 1 and usmle only to ward off DO’s AND USMD’s with the assumption that if you even did have a score that high you wouldn’t want to go there anyways).
 
Yeah I do not feel bad for the MDs getting blocked out.

I mean I am sure Harvard and the ivys in certain programs have a 310 USMLE cutoff for DOs. lol
 
HAHA, Interesting. Looks like the old AOA programs aren't playing around with the merger approaching.
 
Forgive my ignorance- don’t most DO students take both COMLEX and USMLE? If that’s the case, then wouldn’t this 250 step 1 cutoff hurt the DO students as well?

And, after 2020, will *all* DO students have to take step 1? Something I haven’t really understood.
 
And- “A minimum of 5 years is required for graduation”— huh? 5 years of IM residency? Or 5 years of med school?

This entire announcement is so comically WTF
 
This thread is blown out of proportion. This is a clear signal to IMG’s/FMG’s to not apply here. Some IMG IM programs do the same thing (ex. Easton Hospital says 235+ step 1 and usmle only to ward off DO’s AND USMD’s with the assumption that if you even did have a score that high you wouldn’t want to go there anyways).


Exactly. This is the first time I ever heard of Campbell and I’ve been in medicine for a long time. It is a nonissue for USMD’s because most are not aware of Campbell.
 
Exactly. This is the first time I ever heard of Campbell and I’ve been in medicine for a long time. It is a nonissue for USMD’s because most are not aware of Campbell.
Except other old AOA programs are doing similar things.

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Forgive my ignorance- don’t most DO students take both COMLEX and USMLE? If that’s the case, then wouldn’t this 250 step 1 cutoff hurt the DO students as well?

And, after 2020, will *all* DO students have to take step 1? Something I haven’t really understood.
Nah if you’re over the COMLEX cutoff they’ll look at you. We had an EM program director of a former AOA program that converted to ACGMe talk to our EM club. They said bc of the merger they have a 500 COMLEX and 230 usmle cutoff. But he said as long as you’re over the COMLEX cutoff you’re good.
 
Nah if you’re over the COMLEX cutoff they’ll look at you. We had an EM program director of a former AOA program that converted to ACGMe talk to our EM club. They said bc of the merger they have a 500 COMLEX and 230 usmle cutoff. But he said as long as you’re over the COMLEX cutoff you’re good.

Ah I see. Then, in their announcement, they should probably make clear that it’s a COMLEX 420 *or* step 1 250– currently it says “and,” which would imply that the DOs who had taken step 1 would be disqualified by a score < 250, which would defeat the entire purpose of this effort.
 
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